Jam-packed with insights you\'ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin....
A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere There will come a time when people decide you\'ve had enough of your grief, and they\'ll try to take it away from you.
Manguso\'s Arguments about desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature..
But, as in the work of David Markson, the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. 300 Arguments , a foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing, is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms.
To read her work is to witness acrobatic acts of compression in the service of extraordinary psychological and spiritual insight. --from 300 Arguments A Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis ( Kirkus Reviews ), Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today.
Both the same fantasy: I\'ll escape the worst of it.
I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes.
I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief.
But sometimes I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude.
Thank heaven I don\'t have my friends\' problems.
Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I\'ll tell you whether you are.
Bad art is from no one to no one.
Jam-packed with insights you\'ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin....
A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere There will come a time when people decide you\'ve had enough of your grief, and they\'ll try to take it away from you
